Hermione Granger finds herself pregnant and marked as belonging to Fenrir Greyback following an unfortunate encounter with him in the Forbidden Forest after the Battle of Hogwarts. Faced with the knowledge that keeping the child may tie her to Greyback for life, but struggling with her own conscience, she must decide the fate of the child in her womb and by extension, her own fate.

Everyone has lingering scars, especially after war, and especially after many have lost their lives. But what if Severus Snape had been given a second chance from an unexpected source of mercy? What if Hermione stumbles upon something meant to stay secret? And what happens when a monstrous creature is capable of more humanity than any man?